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the entire of the mail bags ha\e 

 been fortunately preserved. As 

 soon as information of the rob- 

 bery turived in town, a very 

 strong detacliment of police was 

 sent out to scour the country ia 

 every direction. 



9. The rebellion at Breslau has 

 been suppressed by tlie energy of 

 the high civil and military autho- 

 rities. Tlic criminals are deli- 

 vered over to justice; and they 

 will be punished witli the utmost 

 rigour of tlie law^ as an example 

 to those who may be tempted to 

 imitate them. This course is ab- 

 solutely necessary, if the govern- 

 ment would not wholly lose all 

 siuthority, 



Belfast. — Accounts fronr Bel- 

 fast state, that the fever still 

 rages in the counties of Pown and 

 Antrim. This dreadful malady 

 has attacked almost every house 

 in Dowjipatrick : the clejgyman 

 of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Forde, 

 has been one of its victims. It 

 begins to spread in Belfast, but 

 not with the malignant symptoms 

 that have appeared in other places. 

 The following mode of pretention, 

 is recomnicudcd, as having stood 

 the test of experiment : — \ hand- 

 ful of salt bci)ig put on a plate, 

 pour over it a pennyworth of oil 

 of vitriol ; shut the windows and 

 tioors of the i-oora for some time. 

 It produces a great smoke, and is 

 the most effectual preventive to 

 infection. 



Derry. — We lament to state, 

 (says the Derry JvurnaL of Tues- 

 day,) that the fever, with ^hich 

 we have been so long and so se- 

 verely visited in this city and sub- 

 urbs, is not subsided. Its ra- 

 vages still proceed unchecked ; 

 every day produces new cases ; it 

 has taken its course among all 



ranks of society, and some of our 

 most valual)le fellow-citizens have 

 fallen its victims. It has nearly 

 superseded all other subjects of 

 conversation ; and the usual chit- 

 chat of the morning is converted 

 into anxious inquiries for the 

 safety of our friends. But among 

 the poor, as may naturally be ex- 

 pected, its progress has been most 

 destructive. The tents which have 

 been erected for their reception 

 still continue crowded. Although 

 on Thursday last 2D persons were 

 discharged as convalescent, and 

 on Saturday 26, still 111 remain 

 uncured, and most of them in 

 danger ; nor is there any imme- 

 diate })rospect of their numbers 

 being diminished, from the fre- 

 quent daily applications to the 

 committee. These tents have been 

 erected now four weeks, and only 

 14 persons, young and old, have 

 died within them during that pe- 

 riod. This is a proof of the wis- 

 dom and the hmnanity of the 

 measure ; and we trust that, if 

 steadily and judiciously conducted, 

 it will be ultirnately instrumcnt^-l 

 in arresting the progress of in- 

 fection. 



^^'itilin the last 1 1 days, 59 coffins 

 Jiave been given to the poor. 



10. Nismes. — It is certain that 

 robbery and murder is no longer 

 committed in the open streets, but 

 still we stand upon a volcano, and 

 some event totally foreign to us 

 may cause a new explosion, more 

 violent than that we have already 

 experienced. To the atrocities of 

 a furious and fanatical populace 

 have succeeded the most deplor- 

 able of all iniquities, that of the 

 tribunals. We once hoped that 

 this evil was perhaps peculiar to 

 our department ; but wp have 

 acquired the melancholy certainty 



that 



